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Trish Hopkinson is a poet, blogger, and advocate for the literary arts. You can find her online at SelfishPoet.com and provisionally in Utah, where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets and folds poems to fill Poemball machines for Provo Poetry. Her poetry has been published in several lit mags and journals, including Tinderbox, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review; her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson will happily answer to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, wine-tasting, and craft beer.

Plan to spend some time with this poem by Hannah Hamilton and corresponding artwork by Kelly Louise Judd. Each numbered section of this poem brings readers in closer and closer to the speaker–an intimate and detailed exposure to experiences many of us relate to in one way or another. […]

“Quaint Magazine is a literary quarterly that publishes dynamic, arresting, and transgressive poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by female and gender non-binary writers. Accordingly, we are trans inclusive. We are strongly committed to publishing work from traditionally marginalized writers, giving voice to the strange, the weird, and the […]

Originally posted on Trish Hopkinson: Find out what is typically expected and how to best format your poetry book manuscript in these Manuscript Tips from our friends at Winning Writers. Don’t let improper formatting cause you to receive a rejection letter. This excellent resource provides samples of: cover pages…

Forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books, Bared collects art and poetry on bras and breasts by women writers and women artists. Poets and artists bare their best breasts clad in bras, bare-chested, or both to boast their barbaric yawps in poems, in paint, in pictures, and art. Bared […]

All of the contests below have no entry fees, except for the animal poetry contest, which is for a good cause and only $1 per poem to enter. Animal Poetry Contest DEADLINE: June 15, 2015 ENTRY FEE: $1/poem NOTES: “Poems can be up to 40 lines and must […]

Originally posted on Trish Hopkinson: My favorite of the three is Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” If you like this post, please share with…

Originally posted on Editing Addict, LLC: ?Guest Blog by?Dr. Katie Manning ? Every time I teach Creative Writing: Poetry to college students, I spend some time going over how to submit poems for publication, and then I require them to send out two batches of submissions to literary…